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Michael Fremer reflects candidly with Gilles Laferriere on receiving a surprise Lifetime Achievement Award at Montreal Audiofest, critiquing exhibitors’ setups, and detailing his emotional departure from Stereophile after building AnalogPlanet and championing vinyl for decades.
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Trent Suggs reveals how Audio Researchโs Certified Pre-Owned program boosts customer loyalty and resale value, while teasing major product launches and reaffirming the companyโs uncompromising focus on sonic perfection and sustainability.
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MoFiโs 45rpm reissue of Jeff Beckโs Truth delivers seismic bass and analogue warmth that outshines many rock classics; released just before Zepโs debut, it remains a blues-rock benchmark for sound and influence.
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Acora Acousticsโ founder Val Cora shares how his love for both stone and sound led to creating the granite-bodied VRC speakerโearning acclaim at shows for their transcendent sonics and redefining what speaker cabinets can achieve.
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From Acoraโs granite giants to Endowโs space-age arrays, Mike Harkins captures the innovation and immersive sound at Florida Audio Expo 2023, where 77 exhibits showcased audioโs finest and boldest in Tampaโs warmth.
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Read the article in English here, et en franรงais ici. ํํธ: ๋ต์ ์คํผ์ปค๊ฐ ์๋ ์ด๋ ธ์ ๋ ์ด๋ฐ ๋์ด๋ฅผ ์์ฃผ ํ๊ณค ํ๋ค. ์์ด๋ค์ด ํ์ค๋ก ์ ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฒ์ ์์ด๊ฐ ์ ์์ดํํ ๊ท์๋ง๋ก ๋ฌด์จ ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์์ด๊ฐ ๋ค์ ์์ดํํ ๊ท์๋ง๋ก ๊ฐ์ ๋ง์ ์ ํ๋ค. ์ด๋ฐ ์์ผ๋ก ๋ง์ง๋ง ์์ดํํ ๊น์ง ์ฒ์ ๋ง์ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์ ๋ฌํ๋ ๊ฒ ๋์ด์ ๋ชฉ์ ์ด๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด๊ฑด…
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Robert Schryer recounts the Canadian launch of Esoteric’s Grandioso M1X monoblocks, where Focal Scala Utopia speakers and jaw-dropping dynamics delivered a โgrandiosoโ performance marked by explosive realism and lush musicality.
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Paul Bowes dives deep into the invisible threats to audio purityโEMI, phase distortion, and vibrationโoffering hands-on tweaks, from copper shielding to Tranquility PODs, to extract maximum musical fidelity from your hi-fi system.
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Montrealโs Pink Floyd Exhibition dazzles with over 350 artifacts, revealing stories behind the band’s evolutionโfrom Watersโs schoolyard traumas to DSOTM’s breakthroughโwhile celebrating the enduring radical spirit that defined their sound.
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MoFiโs remaster of Iron Butterflyโs acid rock landmark “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” breathes new life into the 1968 classic, delivering thunderous bass, refined detail, and an intimacy lost in reverb-heavy earlier pressings.
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Trent Suggs of Audio Research defends hi-fiโs future, citing surging interest from younger listeners and the runaway success of the $5K I/50 amp. With expansion plans underway, heโs betting on loyalty built early.
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JJ ditched vinyl for digital ease, but itโs his careful speaker setup, Anthem room correction, and a surprising Ethernet filter from Network Acoustics that helped his compact listening room transcend its limits.
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After a decade-long journey optimizing his system, Paul Bowes claims 30โ40% of sound quality is often lost due to factors like poor source components, room acoustics, EMI, and subpar cablesโbut that much of it is recoverable.
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To keep his system clean and cool, Mike Harkins tucked away his components in a closetโthen turned to AC Infinityโs smart, silent fans to battle heat and boost reliability without sacrificing style or performance.
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In Part 2, Norman Varney dismantles audiophile mythsโfrom misunderstood power upgrades to the flawed logic of spikesโarguing that true sonic improvement begins with the room, not the gear.
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In a gritty Montreal summer, a parking lot attendantโs despair is upended by Jeff Beck and Rod Stewartโs โPeople Get Readyโโa song that, in one haunting night, turns danger and dead-end dreams into deliverance.
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Trent Suggs recounts his emotional, improbable journey to buying Audio Researchโa story of passion, perseverance, and a vision to make high-end audio more accessible without compromising the brandโs iconic hand-built legacy.
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Tim Lim from Singapore sets a new distance record for PMAโs โNo, I Have the Best Systemโฆโ columnโsharing lessons from 20 years of audio upgrades, regrets, and triumphs in a dedicated hi-fi room inside a high-rise BTO flat.
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In this latest instalment, Paul Bowes reveals how purifying your power supplyโthrough shielding, isolation, and waveform correctionโcan dramatically elevate musical clarity, dynamics, and emotional connection in your hi-fi system.
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Based on three key insightsโroom acoustics, system synergy, and installationโJonson Lee argues that speakers account for just 12.5% of your systemโs sound quality, challenging the conventional wisdom and prioritizing smarter investments.